Stage 1. 18.07.09 Mittenwald : 6 °C, heavy rainfalls, on the mountains, everwhere white, 10cm freshfallen snow on 1800m, 1st stage cancelled, for the 1st time in the history of the Jeantex Bike-Transalb ; Thank God ! We ride by train to Reith in Alpbachtal.

Stage 2. 19.07.09 Reith im Alpbachtal: Fresh but dry – finally it starts ! But the Geisljoch as the highest mountain today(2300m) is cancelled, course was shorten, time split 30k´s before Mayrhofen, the rest is for free choice and no jugdement. In the evening in every pub in Mayrhofen you can hear live folk music ; 60km plus 30km bonus plus about 2000m altitude is 84th place

Stage 3. 20.07.09 Mayrhofen: Weather is allright, toiday we cross the main Alps- the Pfitzerjoch- we know us from the year of 2007- we´re heading south ! Their´s a few snow and mud in 2300m but everything on the run. When we arrive in Brixen it is summer, its time for a fresh beer. In the evening I change a broken spoke – spare part luck ! 95km plus about 2100m altitude is 81st place

Stage 4. 21.07.09 Brixen: It is still summer – ROYAL STAGE - now we´re talking business ! Fantastic scenery, nice course, no problems, we got personell reinforcement by Fritz, he arrived to join us till the end. After arriving at the finish, we´were ready for another beer at the village tavern. Now its clear : Yes, we can !!! 84km plus 3600m altitude is 78th place

Stage 5. 22.07.09 St. Christina: We almost missed the start: check in just 3minutes before the starting signal, right at the beginning still fantastic scenery – Seiseralm…Then during midday heat riding 1700m altitude and at the end an awesome dowmhill track. But we felt safely on the difficult downhill parts, but uphill is a little bit easier than downhill. In the evening the whole village is on their legs - real nice people ! 82km plus 3300m altitude is 75th place

Stage 6. 23.07.09 Sarnthein: Uli Stanciu supported and clapped his hands for everybody reaching the finish line, supporter by passion ! Today is 20% of the track is trail, lots of difficult downhill parts and after 2h, it happens…Wolf crashes and injured his knee - we finish this stage together under the effect of pain reliever, but it doesn´t look that good. The food and drink supply in Kaltern is awesome bad and expensieve ! 78km plus 3200m altitude - ???th place

Stage 7. 24.07.09 Kaltern: Wolf gotta go home, his knee is swollen and hurts, cycling not possible, I´m able to share with some bavarian guys the starting block, they aren´t anymore in the jugdement. Because I´m a little bit exciting of my new status as a single starter, I forgot Fritz birthday - I rembered it somewhere in the middle of the race. The stage runs good, at the end we got a few hard, stiffy uphill parts up to Andalo, the village is really ugly and we´re going at least 6km to the center of the village and two more uphill parts to our accommodation, finally a few meters of altitude…logding in “EL PASO” –“From Dusk till Dawn”sends his greetings ! 75km and 300m altitude

Stage 8. 25.07.09 Andalo: Last stage – For the last time we hear” Highway to Hell” at the start - I pray for no accidents today or punctures ! I´m nervous because of the difficult trails today, but it´s not as bad as all that, at the end we got a light downhill part and wind from behind, I still know the track from the Bike-Marathon in may, just like a time trial, just the right thing for road bikers - What a surprise at the finish line, my girls are waiting for me(Angela and Antonia). I´m really thrilled ! But…I gladly would ride thru the finish with Wolf- but without a little luck, it wont work !

For last : Everything went fine for me, no accidents,no injuries, everything allright. Real nice event, friendlx people, good course, it made lots of fun – but...when we´re doing the missing stage???

Many thanks, my dear PIRATE TEAM for your support – we often were talked to because of our cool jerseys !

Herbert Saller